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I Revived My Abandoned 200-Line Python Script Into a Published npm Package — Here's How GitHub Copilot Made It Happen 🚀 (opens in new tab)

This is a submission for the 🎯 The TL;DR Last October, I built a scrappy 200-line Python script during a hackathon that analyzed Git commit history. It worked — barely. Then I abandoned it. Eight months later, I picked it back up, rewrote it from scratch in Node.js, and turned it into RepoLens — a published CLI tool with 6 analysis engines, 36 automated tests, and CI/CD. 🤖 GitHub Copilot was my pair programmer through every line. Here's the full comeback story. 👇 📦 What I Built RepoLens is a ...

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